The grounds for divorce have no bearing on the finances. The grounds used
are there to demonstrate to the Court and Judge that the marriage has
irretrievably broken down; which is the only legal reason for granting a
divorce.

Your paperwork relating to the divorce is only seen by
the parties, their sols and the court staff and after a time it is
destroyed anyway. The decree absolute won't state the reasons/grounds used in the petition, its a rather dry piece of paper that simply
states the facts, ie the marriage has been legally ended.

Using
2 years separation as grounds is
simply stating a fact, if you chose to not agree, then your x2b could well
use Unreasonable Behaviour, in which allegations of your behaviour are made
- far worse to read that in black and white than to read the fact of 2
years separation.

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No. From what I understand, it is incredibly rare for the basis for divorce
to be considered as a factor when it comes to the financial settlement. The
very rare occurrences tend to be when 'unreasonable behaviour' is cited of
the nature of (a) gambling away the family money or (b) domestic
violence.

(But I'm not a lawyer, I'm only speaking from what
I've read. One of the wikipeeps will be along shortly!)

Edit.
And while I was typing that, Ruby was already answering, far more
comprehensively than I could have done!

I am not a lawyer! But I was brave enough to successfully self-rep through Financial Proceedings. Plus I have a copy of Roger Bird's book

There may be some implication on costs, I think UB or Adultery because they
are 'fault' ­base­d means that you as the respondant may end up picking up the costs. The
two year seperation does not necessarily mean the point in time when one of
you left. It can apply to a point in time where you stopped living a shared
existance, but happened to be in the same property.

It is rare to cite conduct in financial proceedings but not unheard of.
Gambling addiction seems to be the most common reason to use for divorce
and to cite as conduct in financial proceedings for obvious reasons.